Vegan_Joe

u/Vegan_Joe@anarchist.nexus
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Something may have gotten lost in the mix. You are taking a very defensive stance, when I asked a neutral question.

I looked through your responses, and at no point did you clarify what you actually meant by the phrase "hits the receptor sideways".

I'm pretty sure you are referring to the fact that it is a partial agonist, and all I requested was that you clarify if that was the case.

I apologize if that somehow put you on your heels.

That said, there is no need for name calling or projecting ill intent. Thank you very much

What are you actually referring to though? Was I correct that you are implying that it is a partial agonist?

"Hits the receptor sideways" may be common pseudoscientific jargon, but it means nothing within the context of neuroscience or neuropharmacology.

So, to clarify, what exactly do you mean by it?

I conspiratorially see these articles as propaganda to sway surveillance unidirectionally into governmental hands.

We can't give people easy access to record police interactions, especially when they are upping methods of state violence like arming them with electronic shock gloves.

Better brand them as "pervert glasses" or try to associate them with pedophiles somehow so they get banned quickly.

(But also, Fuck Meta, and fuck dystopian hyper-invasion of privacy of all varieties)

I'm an educator, and we have the revision history extenstion in Google doc that allows us to see the document as it was written.

If large blocks of text suddenly appear, it indicates plagiarism.

Knowing your students and their lexicon, it's unnecessary for most of us to use it though.

Most of the students that try to sneak AI struggle with writing to begin with, which makes it remarkably obvious when they try to pass off something that is not theirs.

It definitely seems to go against the spirit of how the company is being promoted.

They sell themselves as being user-oriented. There's a million things these companies could do to make money off of your data, and this one claims to sacrifice all of that for the good of the user.

Now it turns out they are using shady anti-user marketing practices, which is almost to be expected for a for-profit company in this day and age. It does not align with a model that claims to have the user's best interest at heart though, which is how they promote themselves.

I believe that was the year that many started to question. Jeffrey Bezos went from around 3 billion dollars net worth to nearly 9 billion in '07.

The e-readers, to my recollection, were still seen as novel, with The Nook and Barnes & Noble seeming like the obvious powerhouse.

I seem to recall Bill Gates being seen as the evil billionaire that siphoned everyone's ire, while the other fledgling tech bros largely flew under the radar.

on IDLES - Colossus · c/music · 9 pts · 46d

Hot take, but I feel like this is one of those bands whose live performance transcends anything they put to video.

I saw Billy Strings live, and it was almost a religious experience. The energy in that room was impossible to capture on film.

I imagine seeing Idles is a similar situation.

East of Eden by John Steinbeck.

It is a bit lengthy, but it seems like each interaction is written around pithy wisdoms interwoven into the lives of interactions of the characters.

Each time it happens, it's like stumbling upon on a gemstone by a river, and keeps me anticipating the next unfolding of the plot.